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25%OFFRoy Rosenzweig - Clio Wired: The Future of the Past in the Digital Age - 9780231150866 - V9780231150866
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Clio Wired: The Future of the Past in the Digital Age

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Description for Clio Wired: The Future of the Past in the Digital Age Hardback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 15 illus. BIC Classification: HBA; UT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
In these pathbreaking essays, Roy Rosenzweig charts the impact of new media on teaching, researching, preserving, presenting, and understanding history. Negotiating between the "cyberenthusiasts" who champion technological breakthroughs and the "digital skeptics" who fear the end of traditional humanistic scholarship, Rosenzweig re-envisions the practices and professional rites of academic historians while analyzing and advocating for the achievements of amateur historians. While he addresses the perils of "doing history" online, Rosenzweig eloquently identifies the promises of digital work, detailing innovative strategies for powerful searches in primary and secondary sources, the increased opportunities for dialogue and debate, and, most of all, the ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231150866
SKU
V9780231150866
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About Roy Rosenzweig
Roy Rosenzweig (1950-2007) was professor of history and founder of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. Author of several books, including The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life (with David Thelen), and director of digital history projects, such as History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web and the ... Read more

Reviews for Clio Wired: The Future of the Past in the Digital Age
For the archivist, these essays ask provocative questions and point to some interesting opportunities, both for repositories and users.
Christine D'Arpa Archival Issues teachers esepcially should welcome this collection Journal of American History

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